drop your childhood stories:
>be me, age 12
>hate showering more than anything
>it feels gross and i hate getting wet
>my mom starts telling me that if i don’t shower every day then i can’t eat dinner
>i want my dindin so i come up with a genius plan
>let the shower run for 10-15 minutes while i sit in the bathroom
>quickly wet my hair with sink
>mom buys it, i get dindin
>after a month she gets suspicious
>realize i have to step up my game
>now i run the shower and rub my arms/neck with hand soap
>also run my hair under the shower so it’s dripping wet and not just moist
>she asks why i haven’t asked her to buy shampoo yet
>come up with final version of my genius plan
>i’ll stand next to the shower, let the water run, rub soap on my whole body and also use shampoo on my hair so it smells like shampoo
>then i’ll rinse off in the sink
>all while the shower runs

i did this for four years until i realized i was just showering on hard mode

    • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.ml
      01·
      10 months ago

      I’m gonna assume you said autistic but it was taken to be derogatory and while the phrasing you used implies that, it is literally a reaction to symptoms of autism. That hypersensitivity to physical feelings fucking suuuuucks

      • guyrocket@kbin.social
        3·
        10 months ago

        More than a little confused by your comment.

        Retarded is crossed out in the 4chan post. Did you read it?

        • can@sh.itjust.works
          5·
          10 months ago

          lemmy.ml instance has a slur filter enabled. You cannot post slurs in any context and users from there will see it filtered everywhere. It’s pretty broad too. Can’t say shorthand for a female dog

          That’s gotta be a bitch sometimes.

          Its completely removed so they have to guess from context.

          • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            2·
            10 months ago

            Word filters are fun but if everyone has a different filter that seems like it would get ridiculous real fast

            • can@sh.itjust.works
              1·
              10 months ago

              There may be others that follow it. It’s built into lemmy and was compulsory at one point iirc.

              • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
                1·
                10 months ago

                Maybe idk. It reminds me of the whole recent defederation drama partly caused by a false assumption that pronoun tags would be visible to everyone. If you don’t know what other people are seeing, that’s a big source of misunderstandings.

          • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
            2·
            10 months ago

            Automotive subreddits used to run afoul of automatic moderation all the time because of this nonsense.

          • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
            2·
            10 months ago

            I guess I can see their reasoning and it’s good that we have different instances where you can choose what rules you want applying to your lemmy experience… buuuut who the fuck would choose to live in children’s land where your precious little eyes can’t be trusted to see the bad words?

        • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.ml
          1·
          10 months ago

          Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh, fuck. I completely misunderstood. I tend to overanalyze things. A lot of times on the instance I use certain words will be “removed” from comments